Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 2 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 3 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 4 | From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) . |
| 5 | or they 'd have been in a different position |
| 6 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 7 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 8 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 10 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 11 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 12 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 13 | lost that I 'd have been in a pickle . |
| 14 | Much better than I could have been in the role . |
| 15 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 16 | Madame Bihi claims no personal interest in the money in court and accordingly the only locus standi that she can have is as a person who is entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia in this court . |
| 17 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 18 | is the bathroom , so she must have been in there cos he 's hammering on the door and bashing it and kicking it . |
| 19 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 20 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 21 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 22 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 23 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 24 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 25 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 26 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 27 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 28 | In the May heatwave my feet were considerably cooler and less sweaty than they would have been in leather boots . |
| 29 | THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today . |
| 30 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |